We are finally back in Africa after a long winter season in cold Norway! Finances are looking good again and it is time to explore the rest of Southern Africa. After the overnight flight with barely any sleep we picked up our good old Land Cruiser at Ondekaremba Farm and headed into town. The front leaf […]
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Swakopmund, Windhoek and Sossusvlei (June-July 2014)
Along the coast and through the desert landscape we drove to Swakopmund, a town which resembles a North Sea resort in Germany and where German influence and language can be found everywhere. Just before arriving a huge sandstorm hit us and reduced visibility to about 5m. But this also lead to many sunny days […]
Rock art, mountains and thousands of seals (June 2014)
We spent 10 days at the awesome Oppi Koppi Restcamp where owner Vital welcomes overlanders to camp for free. We had huge amounts of fun in the bar with all the locals, enjoyed the delicious food including tasty game meat and relaxed after making it all the way through West and Central Africa. From […]
Crossing the Angolan Namib Desert (May 2014)
The Namib Desert stretches for about 2000km along the coast of Angola, Namibia and South Africa and is the only true desert in southern Africa as well as most likely the oldest in the world. It contains the second largest sand dunes in the world which tower along the coast followed by gravel plains and […]
Spectacular coastline and beautiful highlands of Angola (May 2014)
A day after the start of the malaria treatment we said our goodbyes and thanks to Mario who had been an amazing host throughout our time in Lobito and headed off. We took the rough coastal route which was very beautiful and deserted. Our task for the day was to follow the trails of tomatoes a […]